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Show W'EEKLY ITJFS ANALYSIS BY JOSEPH W. LaBIXE Conservative Trend Apparent In FDR's Crisis Appointments; 'Permanent' Congress Likely (EDITOR'S NOTE When opinions are expressed in these columns, they are those of the news analyst and not necessarily of this newspaper.) Released by Western Newspaper Union. .. ? , : NORWAY J j FJNLN-S Ci.ch. to .IS.d .Im,, -hiffi Slfi ...d, yi. .m..h;, kh., ; SWEDEN &Clp,.P.'.. t. in..,. n... I ; " P-l... Crf ft W In, P0l.,.A,mymobit..d.N. V W pf.ilw.hurt7s.rai.il pfO- p V::'. ."gi""" "" il '- i,IDn r J duction. Slrino..nt food f.tior, ' j ofO.ni.in, in.fl.ctu.l So.1.) IRELAND J Abi, -TyAy I GREAT J "";, ., K Sj I BRITAIN--gV POLAND PJX GERMANY,y Chamberlain, Daladier PR ANCE long-awaited reini bog down I i foi-m luprtma war council -3 Grman invaiion. Western sr Jj in extraordinary lecef .aTVt- frnf prtnure forcei with- 'v meeting. Fir.t repcrtt of joint French- drawal at loma Naii dlviiloni. A X. "- '--""'w, rT Rumania X I rn Front. Alfiet advance in hi : L 1 1 j j 1 1 1 L ISljS ..- y spain $ ItalV rji i V Lrf I XlC ll.ly oH.ri b.rt.r. .Ili.i I e unonrrp la , .-. ; L-v ""V iV 0,', 9o1"' ,0 Blk"" rvi SP '" "."''.Ely. -Cr' f-. fV'&XK- tf.d.. Stat.l foaf G.f m..,n...b.lto.n..h 1,4 n2ty I vSig --. which fj.rn.nd. p,.. S no. U., port on 24 contract, b. fulfilled ;. ' 1 to b.lto.i.n,.. Hop., .o mm Wi. Probability of no,. -wocco . ..i.bii.h ofid tf.d. ;MfeJ'y:"'"''-. ' j; itrenqth during war, ;. : '' ' A WEEK OF WAR IN MODERN EUROPE The neutrals were also busy. CONGRESS: Emergency? Open for inspection this month is a choice collection of political anomalies. anom-alies. Whether Franklin Roosevelt made third term capital out of Europe's Eu-rope's woes was only a guess, but the emergency of war caused strange things to happen. "Junked," in Secretary Steve Early's Ear-ly's words," was the "imaginary brain trust." Solidly whacked under un-der presidential orders were Communists Com-munists and Fascists. Brought into $l-a-year emergency posts were more anti-New Dealers than Washington Wash-ington has seen since Herbert Hoover Hoo-ver left town. Big business, the President's No. 1 foe, not only supported his "cash-and-carry" neutrality proposal, but one of its representatives, Industrialist Industri-alist Herbert Bayard Swope, said enthusiastically that "Mr. Roosevelt is going io keep us out of this war." Meanwhile the traditional tradi-tional big business party, Republicanism, was convinced con-vinced the New Deal's hidden aim SENATOR NYE is to send "...better talk now..." American troops to settle Europe's quarrel. Such Republicans as Ohio's Sen. Robert Taft and Vermont's Sen. Warren Austin plumped for cash-and-carry, as did many a lesser insurgent in-surgent Democrat who last summer hated all that Franklin Roosevelt represents. If this looked like harmony, observers ob-servers had another guess coming. They had not reckoned with North Dakota's Sen. Gerald P. ("Neutrality") ("Neutral-ity") Nye, with Idaho's lionish Sen. William E. Borah, or with Missouri's Democratic Sen. Bennett Champ Clark. As the call went out for special congressional session, voices like these were raised in protest and warning. Isolationism again reached the fore. Far from stubborn, Senator Borah merely wanted assurance of adequate ade-quate debate on neutrality. He had no desire to "kill time," but was sure cash-and-carry "will inevitably bring us into war." More alarming was Senator Nye, author of the present neutrality law: "Americans had better talk now before the gags of a declared emergency are placed. I expect that from here on the administration will be contending that every voice raised in opposition ... is at once a pro-Hitler voice. Be that as it may . . . there will be ... a complete com-plete demonstration to the American Ameri-can people of what the President's wishes will lead America into." What gags he had in mind, Mr. Nye did not say. But there was every indication cash-and-carry neutrality, neu-trality, without gags, had a chance of getting through congress. Under proposed amendments any goods could be sold to a belligerent who bought it, paid for it and carted it away in his own ships. American ships would be prohibited from entering en-tering combat areas. (Incorporated in A'eiti York was an aeency through which French and British Brit-ish governments could buy war materials mate-rials and other goods from their STfiOO,-000.000 STfiOO,-000.000 war . chest set aside for that purpose. Planned lust spring, the agency replaces . P. Morgan & Com-puny, Com-puny, who acted in this capacity during dur-ing the last war.) One other question facing the President was how to get rid of congress once it had changed neutrality. neu-trality. Quite a case for continuous contin-uous wartime session could be built from a Gallup poll which showed most Americans feel safer with congress con-gress in session. Moreover, special spe-cial interests began clamoring for non-emergency legislation. California's Califor-nia's Rep. Jerry Voorhis said congress con-gress must "correct the injustices of the last so-called relief act." New Jersey's Sen. Warren Barbour predicted pre-dicted passage of his anti-espionage bill. Everything considered, it looked like congress would sit for quite a spell. INTERNATIONAL: The Neutrals Biggest repercussion of war in the western hemisphere was the convening con-vening of 21 American republics at Panama City to safeguard neutrality, neutral-ity, protect hemispherical peace and further -economic co-operation. Biggest Big-gest repercussions in the Far. East were (1) shakeup of Japanese army leadership in China and Manchukuo to hasten an end to the Chinese war, and (2) German inspired efforts ef-forts for a non-aggression pact with Russia, thus checking the growing Japanese sentiment in Britain's favor. fa-vor. Though the government did not take these efforts seriously, there were expressed desires for a settlement of Russo-Jap border questions. But the biggest neutral news came from Europe, pleasant and otherwise. other-wise. Moscow's allegiance to Berlin Ber-lin was more marked than ever. German engineers arrived to aid Russian industry, thus indicating the Soviet will be Adolf Hitler's storehouse. While Paris radio reported re-ported all Soviet merchant ships en route to England had been ordered home, thus indicating a coming breach, the Soviet joined hostilities by shooting Polish craft which violated vio-lated the frontier. Should enough such incidents occur, Russia might take revenge by joining Der Fuehrer in a new Polish partition. Completely Com-pletely mobilized, the Soviet was capable of almost anything. Most intense activity came in the Mediterranean region. Andre I ) i , ;v, jf I r J I I I .A J ANDRE FRANCOIS-PONCET Things happened in Rome. Francois-Poncet, French ambassador ambassa-dor to Rome, allegedly notified his foreign office that Italian neutrality is certain, that Mussolini is angry over Germany's warlike settlement of the Danzig issue, and that all this may eventually work out to the allies' al-lies' benefit. Not only was Signor Mussolini making every effort to bolster his world trading position and thus wax rich, but he looked especially at the frightened Balkan states. There he . saw puzzled tradesmen seeking any port in a storm, striving to stay neutral while Germany pressed for delivery of goods contracted before the war. This much was certain: Italy had more interest in her own future than in Germany's, and might ei-en consider Herr Hitler a goodly TOnace should he win control con-trol over the Balkans. But if Mussolini Musso-lini could control Balkan trade, if he could meanwhile develop a profitable prof-itable war commerce with France and Britain, so much the better. THE WAR: Behind Scenes "If'hut kind of a war is this? The nation is puzzled. It expected war to meun an immediate clash of arms . . . Instead, there is little news . . . !ine-teen !ine-teen out of twenty persons ask therefore there-fore this question: Are we making as decisive an alluck ... as our strength allows?" Day after printing this editorial. Lord Beaverbrook's Evening Standard Stand-ard had more news, not from the front but of carryings-on behind scenes. Secretly, Prime Minister Chamberlain and Lord Chatfield (minister oi defense coordination) co-ordination) flew the English Eng-lish channel and met Premier E d o u a r d Daladier and French Gen. Maurice Ga-melin Ga-melin some- i I where near Paris to form BEAVEKBROOK a supreme If ell? allied defense council. Thus was avoided one of the mistakes those nations made in their last war against Germany. Next day Mr. Chamberlain, safely back home, told parliament he left the French meeting "fortified and encouraged." Not only would the allies al-lies trounce Germany, but they would rescue Poland and liberate the Czechs. Significantly silent following Field Marshal Hermann Goering's blast at Britain a few days earlier, Germany Ger-many was apparently busy pursuing war on two fronts. Food rationing was extended, all auto tires were confiscated and a contraband-of-war list was decreed as a "defense measure" against British blockade. In Paris, smart Premier Daladier formed a 21-man war cabinet which included all parties except Socialist, Social-ist, whose Leon Blum refused to participate. Western War England learned for the first time that her troops and planes were fighting in France. With activities still centered in the Saar basin, violent vio-lent fighting brought conflicting reports. re-ports. Berlin claimed French advances ad-vances to Saarbruecken were driven driv-en back. French admitted Germany had seized French territory in its SMIGLY-RYDZ AND WIFE The bald pate got wet. counter offensive, but said the ground was recaptured and poilus were primed for an attack on the famed German West wall. Eastern War After waiting two weeks, Poland's Marshal Edward Smigly-Rydz finally final-ly got his bald pate wet. The famous fa-mous autumn rains started and German Ger-man advance was slackened while the efficient Polish artillery went into action. Warsaw was variously reported falling and standing. Probably Prob-ably it still stood, but it was evident evi-dent the Poles were taking losses elsewhere on the frontier to keep their major city intact. On the propaganda front, Poles (and even U. S. Ambassador Anthony Drexel Biddle) reported Germans were bombing everything m sight. AGRICULTURE: Com Woes From 1928 to 1937 the 10-vear corn production average was 2.310,-000,000 2.310,-000,000 bushels. Last year it was 2,542,000,000 bushels. With 255.000,-000 255.000,-000 bushels already sealed on farms under government loans, the department depart-ment of agriculture last month estimated esti-mated this year's production at 2,450,000,000 bushels. But this month Secretary Henry A. Wallace had to confess: Later figures boosted boost-ed the estimate to 2,523,000,000 bushels, smaller than last year, to be sure, but presenting a greater problem thanks to the big carryover. carry-over. With a carryover of some 450,000,000 bushels, the U. S. will have 3,000,000,000 bushels of corn on hand for the coming season. Under AAA regulations, Mr. Wallace Wal-lace had to decide whether the indicated indi-cated supply is more than 10 per cent above normal domestic needs plus export requirements. If so, he had to propose marketing quotas for next year and submit them to corn belt farmers for approval or rejection. If approved by two-thirds, two-thirds, quotas would require farmers farm-ers exceeding their allotments to store excess grain or pay a penalty pen-alty tax of 15 cents a bushel. Biggest factor working against quotas was last spring's abnormally large pig crop, which J.Ir. Wallace said would justify raising the quota level. |